listings magazine

A listings magazine is a magazine which is largely dedicated to information about the upcoming week's events such as broadcast programming, music, clubs, theatre and film information.

The BBC's '' Radio Times'' was the world's first listings magazine founded in 1923 to compete with daily newspapers, which had hitherto fulfilled that role. In 1932, New York's '' Cue'' was the first city-specific listings magazine.

With the expansion of broadcast media many other listings followed, expanding the format to include columns about media production and personalities, such as TV Hebdo (Québec) in Canada, ''TV Guide'' in the US and hundreds of others worldwide. Broadcast guides are normally published either with a Saturday or Sunday newspaper or are published weekly or fortnightly. It has become a highly competitive area of publishing.

Other listings magazines have started from a primary base in cultural events, such as '' Time Out'' magazine in the UK. Most major cities worldwide have one or many more such publications.

During the 1970s and 1980s, many of these magazines, in the UK at least, played a progressive role as part of the alternative press and had a reputation for leftward leaning investigative and campaigning journalism. They were some of the first consumer magazines to carry lists of "agitprop" events. ''City Limits'' was one of the outspoken of UK-based listings magazines but almost all followed ''Time Out''’s lead of including space for lesbian and gay events and clubs. In certain areas of the UK, which were previously dominated by the old guard "conservative leaning" regional newspapers, this was the first time that gay issues were put on a par with others: this was particularly true of Bristol's '' Venue'', Southampton's '' Due South Magazine'', and to a lesser extent Manchester's '' City Life'' where the local press ('' Manchester Evening News'') had been at times at least, a little more tolerant.

In Italy the most important listing magazine has always been '' TV Sorrisi e Canzoni'', with a weekly circulation of over 2 million in the late 80s.

Radio and TV guide magazines by country (weekly)

German version of this list

Australia

* ABC weekly (1939–59)

Austria

* Radio Österreich - Zeitschrift des Österreichischen Rundfunks ORF
* Radio Wien (1924–38, 1946–53)
* Rundfunkwoche Wien (1939-)
* Allgemeine Radio-Zeitung (1924–25)

Belgium

* Programmabrochures van het NIR

Canada

* CBC program schedule/CBC times (1943–69)

Czechoslovakia
* Radio-Journal (1923–38)
* Náš rozhlas (1939–1941, 1945–53)
* Týden rozhlasu (1941–45)
* Praha
** Československý Rozhlas a Televise (1954–1976)
** Československá Televize
** Týdeník Československá Televize (1972–1977)
* Bratislava
** Ľudový Rozhlas (1952–1956)
** Rozhlas a Televízia (1956–1977)
** Rozhlas 
** Televízia (1966–1977)

Danmark

* Radio ekko (1938–50)

France

* Radio national (1941–44)
* La Semaine
* Télé Magazine (1955-)
* Télé 7 jours (1960-)
* Télé Poche (1966-)
* Télé Star (1976-)
* Télé Z (1982-)
* Télé-Loisirs (1986-)
* TV Magazine (1987-)
* TV Hebdo (1987–2009)
* Télécâble Sat Hebdo (1990-)
* Télé TNT Programmes (2006–2012)
* Télévision-Radio-Cinéma, later Télérama (1960-)

Germany

* Radio Woche (1920s)
* Der deutsche Rundfunk (1923–41)
* Reichsrundfunk (1941–44)
* Bild+Funk
* Hörzu
* TV Hören und Sehen
* Funk Uhr
* Dampf-Radio

Germany (East)

* FF Funk und Fernsehen der DDR

Greece

* Radioprogrammo

Hungary

* Magyar Rádió Ujság (1926–31; 1944)
* Rádióélet (1931–1944)
* Rádió- és Televízióújság (1957–2007)
* Magyar Rádió (1945–1956)
* Színes RTV (1993-)
* Tvr-hét (1989-)

India

* Akashvani (1970s)
* The Indian radio times/The Indian listener (1927–58)

Italy

* Radiorario (1925–29)
* Radiocorriere (1930–43)
* TV Radiocorriere (1959–1995)

Monte Carlo

* Tele Poche

Netherlands

* Radio-luistergids (1925–27)
* Radiobode (1928–41, 1945–58)

New Guinea

* CQ

Norway

* Programbladet

Poland

* RTV Radio i telewizija - TV Godnik

Portugal

* Rádio nacional (1937–)

Romania

* Radio (Radiofonie, televiziune, stiinta pentru toti) (1928-)
* Radio Universul (1935-)
* Romániai Rádió Szaklap (Nagyvárad 1929)/Oradea
* Radio Azi (Programele emisiunilor Romane si straine) (1946-)
* Secolul radifoniei (1947)
* Programul radio s televiziune (1950-)
* RadioTV - programil emisiunilor de radio si televiziune (1954-)
* Tele Radio (Radioteleviziunea Romana) (198x-1989)
* Radio Televiziunea Romana Libera (1990-)
* Panoramic Radio-tv (1990-)
* Romania Radio (revista programelor de radio) (199x-2008)

Russia

* ТР-Пресса (1992-)
* ТВ Парк (1994–2013)

Serbia

* TV Radio Revija
* Studio
* Rtv újság (Vojvodina)

Sweden

* Röster i Radio TV (1930–94)

Syria

* Radiodiffusion Syrienne

Soviet Union

* Говорит Москва: Массовый журнал (1928–1931)
* Говорит СССР: Орган Всесоюз. ком. по радиофикации и радиовещанию (Listings only in 1931–32)
* Говорит и показывает Москва - Programmy tsentralnogo televidenija i radioveshannija / Ezhenedelnik gostelradi SSSR - Moscow (1973–1990)
* Семь дней (1991-)

Spain

* Radio Nacional (1938–)

Switzerland

* Schweizer(ische illustrierte) Radio-Zeitung (1927–58)
* Radio TV je vois tout
* TV radio Zeitung
* Tele

Turkey

* Radyo (1941–49)

UK

* RadioTimes (1923-)
* TVTimes

USA

* FM Forecast
* TV Guide

References

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